tutorial: update the initial commit example.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>

diff --git a/Documentation/tutorial.txt b/Documentation/tutorial.txt
index 00f4bab..6ecb089 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/tutorial.txt
+++ b/Documentation/tutorial.txt
@@ -293,14 +293,16 @@ also wants to get a commit message
 on its standard input, and it will write out the resulting object name for the
 commit to its standard output.
 
 on its standard input, and it will write out the resulting object name for the
 commit to its standard output.
 

-And this is where we create the `.git/refs/heads/master` file. This file is
-supposed to contain the reference to the top-of-tree, and since that's
-exactly what `git-commit-tree` spits out, we can do this all with a simple
-shell pipeline:
+And this is where we create the `.git/refs/heads/master` file
+which is pointed at by `HEAD`. This file is supposed to contain
+the reference to the top-of-tree of the master branch, and since
+that's exactly what `git-commit-tree` spits out, we can do this
+all with a sequence of simple shell commands:

 
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-echo "Initial commit" | \
-       git-commit-tree $(git-write-tree) > .git/refs/heads/master
+tree=$(git-write-tree)
+commit=$(echo 'Initial commit' | git-commit-tree $tree)
+git-update-ref HEAD $(commit)

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